Keesburgstrasse 29 / 29a
The building at Keesburgstrasse 29 / 29a is a listed building in the Frauenland district of Würzburg . The building was designed by the architect Peter Feile in the " New Objectivity " style and built in 1928.
location
The Keesburgstraße is located between the districts of Frauenland and Keesburg in the southeast of the city center of Würzburg. It is partly built up with listed villas in the style of Historicism and Art Nouveau . The street Lerchenhain branches off from it, in which Feile built three model houses of the new building up to 1930 .
history
Peter Feile (1899–1972) took part in the 1927 Werkbund exhibition “The Apartment” with the “ Siedlung am Weißenhof ” in Stuttgart. At the same time, the architect tried to realize his first New Objectivity designs in his home town of Würzburg. His controversial building application for the Leutfresserweg 6 project , which would have been the first flat-roof residential building in Bavaria , received a narrow majority in the city council, but ultimately failed due to the objection of the government of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg. The house could only be built with a steep hipped roof and a different arrangement of the windows.
After Feile had to withdraw his plan for a café at Dominikanerplatz 1 in 1927, the semi-detached house at Keesburgstraße 29 / 29a could be realized in 1928 as his first building with a flat roof in Würzburg. The property was made available by his future father-in-law. The presentation of this house met with great interest in Würzburg and received positive reviews in the local press and in specialist magazines. The architect and his family moved into one of the semi-detached houses.
Feile then decided to acquire an area of around 20,000 m² from the city of Würzburg and designed the Lerchenhain estate with 31 “type houses” in the New Building style. His construction company built three model houses. The public presentation in September 1930 was successful, but there was no interest in buying, so that Feile could not realize any of his other designs for the Lerchenhain.
On the basis of the Bavarian Monument Protection Act of October 1, 1973, the twin house Keesburgstrasse 29 / 29a and the three "white houses" in Lerchenhain were entered in the Bavarian Monument List as examples of the New Objectivity .
Building
The tenement house, like the three later model houses, has three floors and a tiered structure. What they have in common is the style that was new at the time, which completely broke with conventional construction due to the distinctive flat roof. The design is simple and cubic. The wall surfaces are smooth and have a simple color scheme. The window is developed from the inside out.
literature
- Suse jewelry: From box houses and flat roofs. Peter Feile and the New Building in Würzburg, In: Tradition and Awakening. Würzburg and the art of the 1920s. Würzburg 2003. ISBN 3-8260-2763-9
- The lark grove settlement. Heiner Reitberger Foundation, Würzburg 2002. ISBN 3-87717-810-3
- Denis André Chevalley: Lower Franconia . Ed .: Michael Petzet , Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (= Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI ). Oldenbourg, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-486-52397-X .
Web links
- Bavarian Monument Atlas (cartographic representation of the Bavarian architectural and ground monuments by the BLfD , requires JavaScript)
- List of monuments for Würzburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
Individual evidence
- ^ Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation : D-6-63-000-758
Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 45.7 " N , 9 ° 56 ′ 51.4" E